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Hello all,

I'm working with a patron to find an image she saw on a card purchased at Papyrus some time ago. She believes it was a painting, and the image featured a rural landscape with perhaps a small building or house and a telephone pole in the foreground. The sky on the card was full of cabbages.

My communication with the patron is below, including some links to artists that initially came to mind as possibilities. Of the artists I suggested, she feels Michael Sowa is the closest stylistically.

Does this description ring any bells? Any suggestions for furthering my search?

Thank you all,

Jamie Lausch

Ann Arbor District Library

734.827.5135

Yes, I know who Magritte is and Yes, this painting reminds me of the Surrealists. I purchased the card several years ago at Papyrus. Are you familiar with the store? It was a very colorful card. I don't recall much except that it was a scene of a house or small store, there was a telephone pole and lots of cabbage heads in the sky. Of the three links you provided, I would definitely say it is closest to the Michael Sowa painting. I hope this helps.

Carla

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Jamie Lausch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello,

Thank you for coming to the Library with your question! The image you described initially made me think of Rene Magritte, a French surrealist painter who lived from 1898-1967, or Michael Sowa, who designs images used on cards for the German card company Inkognito. Inkognito cards are sold all over town, at places like Peaceable Kingdom, Middle Earth and Falling Water. I also found some interesting photo montages by Carl Warner, called "foodscapes." Everything in the image is a photograph of food, and they're combined to form rural scenes.

Here are some examples of the three artists:

http://www.artsmia.org/viewer/detail.php?v=12&id=1670 (Magritte)

http://tinyurl.com/52yq6c (Sowa)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7186989.stm (Warner--image 2)

Is your painting anything like these three, stylistically? Do you remember anything more about it? (i.e. where the card was purchased, if it was a famous painting or something you had never seen before, if there were people or animals in the image, what the colors were like).

Thank you again for asking us!

Jamie Lausch

Ann Arbor District Library

734.827.5135

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